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Heavy alcohol consumption, particularly in the early stage of pregnancy can lead to a babybeing born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Retarded growth is associated with this syndrome.Women from poorer social backgrounds are one and a half times more likely to produce a lowbirth weight babyOn average in England and Wales, eight percent of births produce a low birth weight baby.Carlisle has a slightly lower than the national average of low birth weight babies at 7% (Clay2007)2. Ethnicity.Table 2 is taken from the 2001 census and relates to peoples’ ethnic group and culturalbackground. In England and Wales populations are classified into 16 groups.The table demonstrates that in Carlisle 97.82% of the population are classified as ‘WhiteBritish’. This is considerably higher than the national figure of 86.99%.The largest ethnic minority group in Carlisle is ‘White Other’ which may represent the increasingnumber of people coming into the area from Poland, Portugal and other European countries,and reflects the national picture.Interestingly the third largest ethnic minority group in England is ‘Asian Indian’ which makes up2.09% of the population. However in Carlisle this group makes up just 0.09% of the population.Carlisle has a large Gypsy / Traveller population, however there is no ethnic coding identified forthis group, therefore no accurate data is available in relation to actual numbers of Gypsy/Travellers within our population.Table 2: Ethnicity.Carlisle North West EnglandAll People (Persons) Count 100,739 6,729,764 49,138,831White: British (Persons) Count 98,547 6,203,043 42,747,136White: British (Persons) % 97.82 92.17 86.99White: Irish (Persons) Count 523 77,499 624,115White: Irish (Persons) % 0.52 1.15 1.27White: Other White (Persons) Count 776 74,953 1,308,110White: Other White (Persons) % 0.77 1.11 2.66Mixed: White and Black Caribbean (Persons) Count 72 22,119 231,424Mixed: White and Black Caribbean (Persons) % 0.07 0.33 0.47Mixed: White and Black African (Persons) Count 47 9,853 76,498Mixed: White and Black African (Persons) 1 % 0.05 0.15 0.16Mixed: White and Asian (Persons) Count 94 17,223 184,014Mixed: White and Asian (Persons) % 0.09 0.26 0.37Mixed: Other Mixed (Persons) Count 87 13,344 151,437Mixed: Other Mixed (Persons) % 0.09 0.20 0.31Asian or Asian British: Indian (Persons) Count 94 72,219 1,028,546Asian or Asian British: Indian (Persons) % 0.09 1.07 2.09Asian or Asian British: Pakistani (Persons) Count 48 116,968 706,539Asian or Asian British: Pakistani (Persons) % 0.05 1.74 1.44Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi (Persons) Count 85 26,003 275,394Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi (Persons) % 0.08 0.39 0.56Asian or Asian British: Other Asian (Persons) Count 57 14,685 237,810Asian or Asian British: Other Asian (Persons) % 0.06 0.22 0.48Black or Black British: Caribbean (Persons) Count 16 20,422 561,246Black or Black British: Caribbean (Persons) % 0.02 0.30 1.14Black or Black British: African (Persons) Count 43 15,912 475,938Black or Black British: African (Persons) % 0.04 0.24 0.97Black or Black British: Other Black (Persons) Count 11 5,303 95,324Black or Black British: Other Black (Persons) % 0.01 0.08 0.19Fiona Huntington 7 of 47